Several frontier models solve a stubborn distributed-systems problem with careful prompting
_xjdr · x · 2026-07-27
The author says they first saw Terrence Tao use Sol models on difficult problems, then tested a stubborn distributed-systems problem across several current frontier models.
With careful prompting and patience, they say Sol High, Opus 5, K3, GLM 5.2, Gemini Flash 3.6, Muse 1.1, and Grok 4.5 all solved it almost identically to the original solution, without any context hints. The takeaway is that prompt quality and effort changed their view of which models they trust for which tasks.
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